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Deborah Posel

Deborah Posel publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Law, on topics such as South African History and Culture, African history and culture studies and Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics.

World rank
#100,422
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#205
of 5,570
Works
24
Citations
198
Citations per work
8.3

What does Deborah Posel research?

Sociology and Political Science: 38.9%Anthropology: 16.7%Law: 16.7%History: 11.1%other fields: 16.6%39%top field
Sociology and Political Science38.9%Anthropology16.7%Law16.7%History11.1%other fields16.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science39% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology17% of their works
  3. 3Law17% of their works
  4. 4History11% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy6% of their works
  6. 6Gender Studies6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Deborah Posel's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: protests, South Africa, Colonialism, Human Rights, African History, Post-Colonial Africa, Constitutionalism and Developmental Local Government.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. South Africa61 topic
  2. protests61 topic
  3. Colonialism52 topics
  4. Human Rights42 topics
  5. African History31 topic
  6. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic
  7. Constitutionalism21 topic
  8. Developmental Local Government21 topic
  9. Humanitarianism21 topic
  10. International Aid21 topic
  11. American Jews11 topic
  12. Democracy11 topic
  13. Gender Diversity11 topic
  14. Jewish identity11 topic
  15. Leadership11 topic
  16. Legal Semiotics11 topic
  17. Rhetoric11 topic
  18. Visual Jurisprudence11 topic

Where does Deborah Posel work?

Deborah Posel's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Deborah Posel have?

Science Explorer counts 24 works and 198 citations for Deborah Posel, ranking #100,422 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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